US5001778A - Portable radio receiver - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a portable radio receiver.
- portable radio receivers mostly employ loop antennas or monopole antennas and they are adapted for operation primarily in the plane of vertical polarization.
- a service area of communication greatly varies depending upon whether the receiving antenna is held vertical or horizontal.
- the prior art pager receiver is equipped with an antenna in such a manner that the receiving sensitivity is maximum when it is carried vertically in a breast pocket of user's shirt, but in practice, it is often carried in a pocket of a jacket, a bag, a handbag, or the like.
- the pager receiver is usually laid at its side, that is, it is kept in the direction in which the directivity of the antenna is the lowest, resulting in the coverage of communication being seriously impaired.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a portable radio receiver which permits automatic adjustment of the plane of polarization of its antenna to the direction in which the receiving sensitivity increases, regardless of the direction of the receiver, so as to enlarge the distance range of communication.
- a portable radio receiver of the present invention comprising: a case, employed also as an antenna of the portable receiver, composed of a pair of parallel-opposed square conductor plates interposed therebetween a space sufficiently smaller than the wavelengths of received waves of the portable radio receiver, a frame of insulating material interposed in the space, feeding terminals of the portable radio receiver provided at desired positions on one pair of opposed sides of the parallel-opposed square conductor plates, and short-circuit elements of high-frequencywise each provided on other pair of opposed sides of the parallel-opposed square conductor plates so that the direction of the plane of polarization of the antenna can be changed by short-circuiting any one of the short-circuit elements; and a control circuit provided in the case for selectively short-circuiting one of the short-circuit elements to obtain a larger received output from the feeding terminals.
- the feeding terminals are provided at one pair of opposed corners of the square conductor plates, while the short-circuit elements are provided at other pairs of opposed corners of the
- the direction of the plane of polarization of the antenna is switched to an optimum direction in accordance with the state of use of the receiver to thereby maintain excellent reception That is, it is possible to overcome the defect of the prior art that the direction of the antenna varies according to the state of the receiver being carried and the receiving sensitivity decreases accordingly, resulting in deteriorated reception.
- FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D are diagrams explanatory of the electric wave incoming direction to a conventional pager receiver and its directional patterns obtained by measuring its receiving sensitivity;
- FIG. 2A is a perspective view showing the construction of the radio receiver of the present invention.
- FIG. 2B is a system diagram of the radio receiver
- FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D are diagrams showing antenna directional patterns of an embodiment of the radio receiver of the present invention according to the antenna short-circuit positions.
- FIG. 4 shows characteristic diagrams showing variations of the antenna radiation efficiency in the embodiment.
- FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D directional patterns of the receiving sensitivity of a card typed pager receiver will first be described.
- the values indicated were obtained by measuring the receiving sensitivity to vertically polarized electric waves incoming from Z-axis direction at each 45° rotation angle of the receiver about the Y axis.
- the receiving sensitivity indicated in decibel, decreases to inner ones of the concentric circles.
- the directional patterns in the cases of the pager receiver being placed (1A) vertically (longigudinally), (1B) horixontally, and (1C) sideways are indicated by the solid line, the broken line, and the one-dot chain line respectively. It is evident from FIGS. 1A, 1B and 1C that the sensitivity is significantly low when the pager receiver is held sideways as shown in FIG. 1C.
- FIGS. 2A and 2B are a perspective view and a short-circuit element control system diagram showing the portable radio receiver of the present invention as being applied to a thin (card type) pager receiver.
- reference numerals 1 and 2 indicate a pair of parallel-opposed square conductor plates with a space h sufficiently smaller than the wavelengths of received radio waves
- 3 designates an insulating frame interposed between the pair of conductor plates 1 and 2.
- the conductor plates and the insulating frame constitute the receiver case and, at the same time, operate as a flat loop antenna.
- the radio frequency wave receiver 4 is provided with a receiving electric field strength detector commonly referred to as RSSi (Receiving Signal Strength indicator), which receives received signals from feeding points D and D' and yields a detected output 41.
- RSSi Receiveiving Signal Strength indicator
- the control circuit 5 short-circuits in succession the short-circuit elements 6 and 7 provided at the corners A, A', C and C' of the plate antenna, compares their detected outputs 41 with one another, that is, the received outputs, and selectively short-circuits one of the short-circuit elements which provides a maximum output value.
- the feeding points are provided at desired positions on one side of the pair of conductor plates 1 and 2 opposed in parallel, i.e. at a pair of opposed corners of the plates in this embodiment, and the shor-circuit elements 6 and 7 are provided at two more desired opposite positions on the other sides of the plates, i.e. at the other opposite corners A, A', C and C' in this embodiment.
- any one of the short-circuit elements 6 and 7 is actuated to short-circuit the conductor plates 1 and 7 in a high frequency-wise, causing them to serve as the flat loop antenna.
- FIGS. 3A, 3B and 3C show gain characteristics of the antenna of this embodiment with its plane of polarization in the Z-axis direction in cases where feeding points are provided at the corners D and D' and the corners A and A', B and B', C and C' are short-circuited, respectively.
- the direction of plarization for a polarized wave of high radiation field intensity is substantially in agreement with the direction in which the short-circuit point is viewed from the feeding point.
- the polarized wave directivity characteristics of the receiving field can be changed by shifting the short-circuit points of the pair of parallel-opposed conductor plates 1 and 2 to desired positions on their marginal edges, and the directivity of the antenna can be held to be optimum with respect to the electric wave incoming direction through automatic control of the positions of the feeding points
- FIGS. 1A to 1C show measured values when the short-circuit elements C and C' were short-circuited, and in the case of FIG. 1C, the receiving sensitivity is markedly low, but it was confirmed that the receiving sensitivity would be equal to that in the case of FIG. 1A by switching the short-circuit points to A and A'.
- the curves a through c in FIG. 4 show variations of the radiation efficiency relative to frequency when the opposed corners A and A', B and B', or C and C' were short-circuited, respectively. It was ascertained that the resonance frequency would undergo substantially no variation, even when pair of opposed points A and A', B and B' or C and C' are short-circuited, and that substantially the same radiation efficiency at a resonance frequency could also be obtained regardless of the short-circuit point.
- the short-circuit elements 6 and 7 need only to be shorted in a high-frequency-wise and they can be implemented by pin diodes or varicap diodes.
- the antenna structure can also be used as the receiver case, and consequently, the radio receiver can be miniaturized. Furthermore, the directivity of the antenna can always be held to be optimum with respect to the electric wave incoming direction. Accordingly, the present invention is highly effective not only for the manufacture of miniature, lightweight and thin (card-like) portable radio receivers but also for improving the coverage of communication.
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